New Religious Movements And Religious Liberty In America
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New Religious Movements And Religious Liberty In America
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Author : Derek Davis
language : en
Publisher: J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies Baylo Ity
Release Date : 2002
New Religious Movements And Religious Liberty In America written by Derek Davis and has been published by J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies Baylo Ity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Political Science categories.
It has been said that the measure of a healthy and civilized society is how well it treats its elderly and indigent. Perhaps it should be said also that the measure of the health of religious liberty in a society is the degree to which minority, nontraditional faiths are protected. This book is a collection of essays on the subject of religious liberty and new religious movements (NRMs). NRMs are often called "cults" by popular media commentators and the public at large, but scholars eschew that term because it is so pejorative that it skews the argument from the very beginning. By contrast, the term "new religious movements" attempts to place NRMs squarely in the mix with older, more traditional forms of religion. This is due in part to the fact that in America there should be no correlation between the level of social approval a group has achieved and the degree of religious liberty it enjoys. As the Supreme Court itself averred famously in the 1872 case Watson v. Jones, "The Law knows no heresy and is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect." Each author represented in this volume believes that NRMs should enjoy the same liberties as more mainstream religions. If the book has a bias, it is a bias in favor of religious liberty. The authors believe that if the First Amendment is applied to protect the newest, nontraditional, seemingly unusual religions (by the standards of the majority of the population), then nearly everyone is safe as far as religious liberty is concerned. -- "The Cult Awareness Network and the Anticult Movement: Implications for NRMs in America" by Anson Shupe, Susan E. Darnell, and Kendrick Moxon -- "Scientology: Separating Truthfrom Fiction" by Heber C. Jentzsch -- "Witchcraft and Satanism" by Stuart A. Wright -- "Women in Controversial New Religions: Slaves, Priestesses, or Pioneers" by Susan Palmer -- "New Religious Movements and Conflicts with Law Enforcement Agencies" by Catherine Wessinger
To Secure The Blessings Of Liberty
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Author : William C. Shepherd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
To Secure The Blessings Of Liberty written by William C. Shepherd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Constitutional law categories.
New Religious Movements In The Twenty First Century
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Author : Phillip Charles Lucas
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
New Religious Movements In The Twenty First Century written by Phillip Charles Lucas and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Cults Culture And The Law
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Author : Thomas Robbins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Cults Culture And The Law written by Thomas Robbins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Religion categories.
The New Religious Movements Experience In America
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Author : Eugene V. Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2004-10-30
The New Religious Movements Experience In America written by Eugene V. Gallagher and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-30 with Religion categories.
Wherever and whenever they appear, new religious movements always produce conflict. Even as they attract members who enthusiastically embrace their innovative teachings, new religions often provoke strongly negative reactions—often because they challenge established notions of proper religious action, belief, and morality. Opponents of new religious movements often brand them as cults and urge their fellow citizens, their own religions, and even the government to take action against what they see as suspicious and potentially dangerous movements; the members often complain that their motives have been misconstrued and argue that their groups are unfairly persecuted. The New Religious Movements Experience in America outlines the conflict between representatives of the status quo and new religions and examines how these groups appear both to their members and to their cultural opponents. This work is ideal for anyone—students, parents, and teachers—who wish to gain a deeper understanding of new religious movements in America. New religions have always been part of the American religious landscape, and this book moves beyond the contemporary period to discuss examples of new religions that have originated, survived or died, and sometimes prospered throughout U. S. history. Among the groups discussed are the Mormons, the Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians, Spiritualism, Theosophy, the Church Universal and Triumphant, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Soka Gakkai, the Nation of Islam, Wiccans and neo-Pagans, the Church of Satan, the Church of Scientology, Heaven's Gate, and the Raelians. The New Religious Movements Experience in America includes a glossary and a list of resources for those interested in doing further research on the experience of the followers of new religions.
New Religious Movements
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
New Religious Movements written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Cults categories.
New Religious Movements And Religious Liberty In America
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Author : Derek Davis
language : en
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Release Date : 2003
New Religious Movements And Religious Liberty In America written by Derek Davis and has been published by Baylor University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Political Science categories.
New nontraditional religious movements are the most likely groups to offend mainstream culture and the least likely to have representatives in government to ensure that their liberty is protected. These new religious movements are sometimes ostracized and subject to various forms of discrimination. As America becomes increasingly pluralistic, with more and more groups contributing to the nation's religious mosaic, new religious movements may well play an increasing role in the course of religious liberty in America, just as groups such as the Jehovah's Witnesses did formerly. This book explores the problems and possibilities posed by new religious movements for religious liberty in America.
The Odyssey Of New Religious Movements
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Author : John T. Biermans
language : en
Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press
Release Date : 1986
The Odyssey Of New Religious Movements written by John T. Biermans and has been published by Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Religion categories.
Presenting the thesis that all new, conversion-oriented religious movements which call their members to a radical change of life normally receive persecution, this study includes reference to contemporary researchers in the sociology of religion as A. Shupe, E. Barker, and J. Richardson, in order to identify and contextualize the main lines of attack upon one such new religion - the Unification movement.
Reactions To The Law By Minority Religions
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Author : Eileen Barker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-30
Reactions To The Law By Minority Religions written by Eileen Barker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-30 with Religion categories.
Much has been written about the law as it affects new and minority religions, but relatively little has been written about how such religions react to the law. This book presents a wide variety of responses by minority religions to the legal environments within which they find themselves. An international panel of experts offer examples from North America, Europe and Asia demonstrating how religions with relatively little status may resort to violence or passive acceptance of the law; how they may change their beliefs or practices in order to be in compliance with the law; or how they may resort to the law itself in order to change their legal standing, sometimes by forging alliances with those with more power or authority to achieve their goals. The volume concludes by applying theoretical insights from sociological studies of law, religion and social movements to the variety of responses. The first systematic collection focussing on how minority religions respond to efforts at social control by various governmental agents, this book provides a vital reference for scholars of religion and the law, new religious movements, minority religions and the sociology of religion.
New Religious Movements
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Author : Elijah Siegler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
New Religious Movements written by Elijah Siegler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Religion categories.
Using a historical and cultural approach,New Religious Movmentstakes the approach that new religious movements are neither new nor inherently evil or dangerous. The Introduction colorfully demonstrates the variety of NRMs today and how our first impressions of them may be wrong. Also, this text argues that NRMs are a normal response to cultural and social change, not just something that has "happened" to the Western World since the 1960s. This book's topics include Defining New Religious Movements, Modern Heresy, Esoteric Revival, Asian NRMs, African NRMs, Islamic NRMs, and the Global Future of NRMs. An interesting read for those interested in New Religious Movements.